pavrecord will also be included, although I can't seem to get it to do anything except record buggered up audio... Probably Akitas old ffmpeg

Having read your comment, I was curious so downloaded and installed Akita. I discover that the existing pavrecord does indeed have some issues with the ffmpeg version in Akita: x11grab doesn't work from pavrecord and nor does the preview and video player ffplay, because of the ffmpeg version. However, it only required a slight modification to the existing pavrecord to allow it to work with that version of ffmpeg. I will post a special version for Akita tomorrow (and hopefully therefore for some other puppies should they come with that ffmpeg version.

On my machine, I do find that the webcam driver provided by Akita doesn't work so well with either of my webcams compared to that in say Slacko-5.3.3. Probably related to the older 2.6.x kernel in Akita. Both my webcams are recognised and work well in Slacko, but one of them gives a very distorted image in Akita and though the other one displays okay, the frame rate is very slow. So that is likely to be the main problem for most users - the older kernel not supporting the webcam very well. If it works in some other app like Xawtv then it will also work in pavrecord, but not otherwise. x11grab/screencasts will certainly work in the modified pavrecord I'll upload, and sound should be okay... but on that topic:

I don't understand your comment that pavrecord produced "buggered up audio". pAVrecord does not use ffmpeg for most of its audio - it simply, for example, uses arecord and lame for mp3 and arecord alone for wav, so it is just alsa in that case. If alsa is therefore working correctly, I cannot understand why the recorded audio should end up garbled (I haven't tried sound with Akita on my test computer as yet because it is late night and my family are sleeping...). But please let me know in detail if you can what the exact problem is with the recorded audio so that I can try and address that too.

Not much I can do if arecord or lame is broken on your system though. However, I'd be grateful if you would check your alsaconf first and perhaps check other recording apps in Akita, such as Bacon record and mhwavedit to see if sound is always recorded garbled. From what I've read Bacon uses the same arecord-lame commandline, though I've never tried it to check that and from experience if mhwavedit records okay, so would the new precord-1.8.4 and pavrecord uses the same audio recording code. I'll check audio recording on my test system with Akita and let you know the result._________________SomeOfMyWork with links:
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I have now produced a modified version of pavrecord for Puppy 4.x series computers (tested as fully working on Akita on my Pentium M 1.6GHz 1GB RAM machine).

I did not have to modify any of the sound recording code in pavrecord at all in fact, just some of the ffmpeg parameters to suit Akita's ffmpeg. Note that everytime I rebooted Akita, however, I needed to run alsaconf before it would fully recognise my soundcard. Without doing so, alsa wouldn't record properly, and thus pavrecord couldn't work. Obviously alsa must all be set up correctly and working fully before using an app like pavrecord. You can find the Akita tested version here if you want it:

I have now produced a modified version of pavrecord for Puppy 4.x series computers (tested as fully working on Akita on my Pentium M 1.6GHz 1GB RAM machine).

I did not have to modify any of the sound recording code in pavrecord at all in fact, just some of the ffmpeg parameters to suit Akita's ffmpeg. Note that everytime I rebooted Akita, however, I needed to run alsaconf before it would fully recognise my soundcard. Without doing so, alsa wouldn't record properly, and thus pavrecord couldn't work. Obviously alsa must all be set up correctly and working fully before using an app like pavrecord. You can find the Akita tested version here if you want it:

Oct 16:
- updated to VLC-GTK 2.5.8: much improved for multiple instances of VLC
- fixed: never use 'killall' to end vlc, fixes multi-user and multiple instances
- updated run_vlc(): add PID of newest vlc playback process to end of list
- updated run_vlc(): only playback is added to list, to be ended by kill_vlc
- updated run_vlc(): all capturing, converting, transcoding, dvd ripping, stream downloading etc will continue when playback is quit
- updated kill_vlc(): get PID from list of VLC playback pids, kill only most recent PID, then remove that PID from the list
- updated kill_vlc(): if trying to kill a PID that is no longer running, remove from list, kill previous one in list, recursive
- updated GUI: 'Stop Playback' button will kill most recent VLC process that is still running
- updated GUI: do not allow multiple instances of main GUI
- updated OSC: never interfere with other playback windows, only its own (the one its attached to)
- updated OSC: 'Quit' button will kill only the VLC its attached to
- updated: workdir always dir of current file/playlist etc, or $HOME if none given
- fixed: all streams now download to $WORKDIR, not always to $HOME, as before
- fixed: cleaned up tmp files created and used, fixes for multiple users

Hooray for mongrels! I'm sure what you mean really is that you've probably generated hybrid vigour in the Puppy stable I'll have my little squad of testers on this very intensively, but alas not for at least a fortnight.
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I tried akita on my Dectop with an amd geode and most jwm icons were missing. i don't recall if they were xpm or png, but whichever it is was likely compiled for 686 so it would likely fail on other 586 machines including the surfboard and gecko edubook. This is the same reason it won't boot ubuntu (missing cmov instructions)_________________Web Programming - Pet Packaging 100 & 101

I tried akita on my Dectop with an amd geode and most jwm icons were missing. i don't recall if they were xpm or png, but whichever it is was likely compiled for 686 so it would likely fail on other 586 machines including the surfboard and gecko edubook. This is the same reason it won't boot ubuntu (missing cmov instructions)

I've been waiting awhile to see a new version. But I don't have an old machine anymore, and this was my fav puppy420-based puppy.

I could make a version with a newer kernel, they seem to work OK, except that I can't seem to get OpenGL working with them.. For example, if I replace the pup4 kernel with the wary511 kernel, the new pup uses the wary511 kernel, but the nvidia drivers for that w511 kernel don't seem to work... That really bugs me, stops me updating the kernel ... I use the method from the 'switching kernels' thread... Maybe there is a better way??

As a side note, Akita does seem to be a bit of a pain the ass to get OpenGL working, unless you got an ATI/Nvidia card... It might have something to do with Xorg pkgs used from w5, or maybe I'm just dumb - I can't seem to get the 'xorg_xorg_dri' pkg from the pup4 repo working, nor the equivolent stuff from the wary5OLD repo...._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

Interesting.... Is there anything i can do about it? Does the same thing happen with other puppies on that PC?

most official t2 packages were built with --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu, which sets -march=i486, so those packages work. The problem occurs on secondary compiles where the packager simply does ./configure && make && new2dir make install without setting --prefix --build --sysconfdir or --localstatedir. It probably just needs a recompile with -march=i586 or lower added to cflags, but I no longer have a handy copy of a devx for this series to check it. I'm sure I will find others at some point._________________Web Programming - Pet Packaging 100 & 101

Oi!
That's a pretty cheeky comment There's at least 3 in my family who use Akita regularly for media playing, games etc via the TV, and it'll be my distro of choice when "distributing" my old desktop hardware Johnny-Appleseed-like to various causes...
Sorry again that I won't have time for at least another week to run your updated ISO though the hoops. Just a quick note though that I found it very simple to extract various games files from sidder's HSB (HanSamBen - a 412/431 pupplet for kids) repository and have them running in Akita. From memory, "Fattybear's Birthday Surprise" was a doddle to have up and funning from within your DBGL pet, sc0ttman - big cheer from the kids
I noticed OOlight in your repository, and I am reminded that there is an OOlight4kids- or something similarly named - lurking in the forums somewhere. Maybe soon I'll dig one of my copies out and test it on Akita. My intention is to have the kids learning how to do animations and simple storytelling using the "powerpoint" application in OOlight. Maybe keep them interested during the skool hols, I've sussed out some various 3rd-party software to do this sort of thing, but I feel experience with the powerpoint environment - which they get in classes at school anyway - will be more helpful.
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P.S. Without meaning to hog your thread or your time sc0ttman, I wonder what software solutions could be included for text-to-speech or voice recording, maybe even simple movie editing? [Hmmm I see you've got drec and Cinerella - I'll try them out]. Perhaps a typing game suite perhaps? Just looking for something to challenge (read: offline "babysit!") primary school kids without them realising that they're actually learning something really important. Not looking to co-opt your distro completely into the educashun field, so please feel free to ignore my suggestions
Legendary game engineer, Mike Singleton, passed away recently http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2012/oct/16/mike-singleton-rpg-visionary-games. I've kinda peppered the forums with requests for "Lords of Midnight" games in Puppy linux, and while I can get various fan-made java remakes going, the dos versions remain a bit of a challenge to me (the ones I have use the dexe format). Wine would be the environment of choice to run Chris Wilds' remakes in Windows, as with the "War of the Solstice" remake. Seems like I have myself a project this Christmas break, in Akita _________________What I get up to when I'm not on the Puppy Linux Murga forum:
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